Magnus
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- Sep 20, 2008
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- 153
First the bloody diatoms won't leave my tank alone. It's been 3 going on 4 months and no coraline algae blooms AT ALL.
Then, my gramma gets ich. That means I have to spend more money on a good refractometer, plus some more cash to get a QT running. Not to mention the 6 weeks it'll take to break the life cycle of the Ich. Great.
Plus the cost of an RO/DI filter...there's another $100 minimum.
Now, the cleaner shrimp I bought YESTERDAY appears to have met it's end at the hands of something else in the tank. All I found was a broken piece of it's rear exoskeleton...no way it's a molt. Plus I moved the LR and BR around and no sign of it. So there's $40 down the drain. I may as well have taken the money and burned it.
Not sure what killed it...maybe the brittle star. I saw the star with a chunk of something in it's tentacles...not sure if it was part of the shrimp. In anycase, I think the brittle star is going to get the heave-ho, just to be sure.
Anyway this bloody tank has turned into a money pit that hasn't brought me as much enjoyment as I expected. I'm starting to think that any animals in captivity except domesticated ones, simply don't belong in our possession. Think of how many things die because of this.
Oh, and know what else? My LR sucks. Big time. Anything cool that may have grown on it was probably devoured by those stupid emerald crabs I got rid of a while ago. Everyone else seems to get cool things growing on theres, except me. WTF?
At this point I may just pack it all in and sell it off, before I get in too deep.
Needless to say I'm absolutely fuming.
Then, my gramma gets ich. That means I have to spend more money on a good refractometer, plus some more cash to get a QT running. Not to mention the 6 weeks it'll take to break the life cycle of the Ich. Great.
Plus the cost of an RO/DI filter...there's another $100 minimum.
Now, the cleaner shrimp I bought YESTERDAY appears to have met it's end at the hands of something else in the tank. All I found was a broken piece of it's rear exoskeleton...no way it's a molt. Plus I moved the LR and BR around and no sign of it. So there's $40 down the drain. I may as well have taken the money and burned it.
Not sure what killed it...maybe the brittle star. I saw the star with a chunk of something in it's tentacles...not sure if it was part of the shrimp. In anycase, I think the brittle star is going to get the heave-ho, just to be sure.
Anyway this bloody tank has turned into a money pit that hasn't brought me as much enjoyment as I expected. I'm starting to think that any animals in captivity except domesticated ones, simply don't belong in our possession. Think of how many things die because of this.
Oh, and know what else? My LR sucks. Big time. Anything cool that may have grown on it was probably devoured by those stupid emerald crabs I got rid of a while ago. Everyone else seems to get cool things growing on theres, except me. WTF?
At this point I may just pack it all in and sell it off, before I get in too deep.
Needless to say I'm absolutely fuming.